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Message: <blockquote data-quote="KarinsDad" data-source="post: 3348505" data-attributes="member: 2011">Only in the current descriptive text of what AoOs represent.In the reason for the AoO rules in the first place position, AoOs are a game balance mechanic.As such, an AoO opposed roll is a perfectly reasonable game mechanic solution to the problems they were originally trying to solve:1) Spell casters casting spells and there being no reasonable way (readying is not reasonable) for an opponent standing next to him to attempt to stop the spell.2) Archers firing arrows, still being totally defensive, and there being no reasonable way for an opponent standing next to him to attempt to interfere with the shot.3) In a circular initiative system, an ability to react to moving targets as they try to get to or past an area and the defender trying to prevent them from doing so or taking advantage of them doing so.AoOs are not a perfect solution for any of these perceived problems (all of them caused by a segmented circular initiative system), but they are a good first step (better than any 1E or 2E solution).If WotC had originally set up the avoidance of AoOs as an opposed roll instead of a roll versus a set DC, I suspect strongly that many people on the pro-DC side would be on the pro-opposed roll side, just because that is what they had done for years and because that solution would have been adequately explained by WotC when 3E first came out. Dropping the extra die roll would not be that big of a deal.When 3E first came out, there was no Immediate Actions. Now there are. Does that mean that the way Feather Fall was handled in 3E was the best way, or an inferior way? Breaking people out of their current mode of thinking is a difficult thing. Now, we have all types of new techniques in the game.When 4E comes out, if opposed rolls to avoid an AoO (instead of a set DC) were to be introduced, some people might grumble about it for a while and eventually it would become part of our gaming culture and most people would forget about it.Your "irrelevant" of today Nail might become the "relevant" of tomorrow. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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